Daytime client, using symbolic host and service names : Socket « Network « Perl






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Daytime client, using symbolic host and service names

    

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use Socket;

use constant DEFAULT_ADDR => 'your server';

my $packed_addr  = gethostbyname(shift || DEFAULT_ADDR) or die "Can't look up host: $!";
my $protocol     = getprotobyname('tcp');
my $port         = getservbyname('daytime','tcp') or die "Can't look up port: $!";
my $destination  = sockaddr_in($port,$packed_addr);

socket(SOCK,PF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,$protocol)  or die "Can't make socket: $!";
connect(SOCK,$destination)                  or die "Can't connect: $!";

print <SOCK>;








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